Election turnout has typically hovered around 10 percent of the more than 50,000 registered voters who live in the district, which encompasses the working-class communities of Hawthorne, Lawndale, Lennox, Del-Aire and nearby areas.
Each side has launched its own online survey asking how the district is performing and how it can do a better job.
The leadership in the Bassett Teachers Association has presented few demands in this year’s negotiations in the hopes of a pay bump next year.
The Copelands belong to the roughly 200 families in Long Beach with children in California Virtual Academies.
Hundreds of teachers, students and parents came to the Bellflower Unified school board meeting Thursday night to request a pay raise for educators as negotiations between the district and union stall.
The district’s official response took the form of a letter to the editor, signed by school board President Maritza Molina, spelling out the 54-year-old leader’s accomplishments at the district since he arrived six years ago.
In January, dual-immersion charter school El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana on 1010 N. Broadway opened its first multiclassroom building. Students in second, fourth and fifth grade moved into the new two-story 19,000-square-foot building after winter break on Jan. 13, said Monique Daviss, executive director of El Sol.
Math movies. Yoga. Thanksgiving e-books. Don’t expect the typical at Stonegate Elementary, where teachers are told to try anything that might kindle the flame of student success.
The latest brewing controversy in public schools isn’t about evolution, creationism, classroom prayer or perceived historical revisionism. It’s penmanship.
Two former high school students who lost fingers in a tug-of-war accident have sued a Southern California school district.
A new bill introduced Friday would prohibit California school districts from using voter-approved construction bonds for non-facility related items -- a move spurred by the Los Angeles Unified School District’s $1-billion plan to purchase iPads for every student, teacher and administrator.
Thinking bigger is part of the culture at Elmhurst Community Prep, a middle school in East Oakland that has expanded the school day to 5 p.m. with a variety of after-school offerings, such as Ashur Bratt's class on building self-confidence. Students can choose robotics, music or dance.
A San Francisco-based parent organization is circulating an initiative for the November ballot that it says would sever budget machinations that have contributed to school districts’ and community colleges’ financial distress since the Great Recession and leave them vulnerable when the next economic downturn comes.
The Common Core has been applauded by education leaders and promoted by the Obama administration as a way to replace a hodgepodge of state standards with one set of rigorous learning goals. But the newest chorus of complaints is coming from one of the most liberal states, and one of the earliest champions of the standards: New York. And that is causing supporters of the Common Core to shudder.
The Assembly committee that will decide how to fix the multibillion-dollar funding shortfall for teacher and administrator pensions will get good – and some sobering – news when it holds its first hearing on the issue this week.
The GED Testing Service, the company that designs the exams, revamped the tests this year to put them more in line new expectations for high school graduates under the Common Core standards 45 states have adopted for math and English.
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A recent review showed that the devices are exceeding expectations for energy collection.
Math scores throughout the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District show that students are struggling mightily.
New City Public Schools will not be disciplined by the state for failing to meet targets on standardized tests.
The top two administrators in the Rialto Unified School District being out on paid leave for the past five months have cost taxpayers the equivalent of three veteran teachers during that time. But the pair won’t be in limbo much longer, according to board members.
Over the objections of the teachers' union, Fresno Unified School District on Thursday unilaterally declared an impasse in negotiations for a new labor contract.
A veteran third-grade teacher at Salt Creek Elementary School in Chula Vista who was placed on leave for allegedly soliciting massages from her students in exchange for “class dollars” will not finish the school year after more parents complained when she returned to the classroom.
Tension among Grossmont Union High School District trustees was evident Thursday when the board passed a resolution to limit trustees' attendance at meetings of the district's Bond Oversight Committee.
The district is working with local farms that produce vegetables, a program that offers relief as growers switch from fruit over worries about an invasive and deadly citrus pest.
